science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper …Several reviews and impact assessment studies have concluded that the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and … sizes, less predefined research topics, a reduced administrative burden, and a higher quality of the peer review system …

materials. However, increasing industry funding of research can restrict the dissemination of results and materials. We show … scientists who receive industry funding are twice as likely to deny requests for research inputs as those who do not. Receiving …, however, 50% more likely to be denied access to research materials by others, but this is not affected by being funded …

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to … analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but …

services. About 8 percent of total employment in West Germany is in business services. In particular, by taking advantage of …

innovation: regulations, R&D subsidies and knowledge infrastructure (i.e. basic research at universities). We synthesize the …. Our empirical investigation rests upon a survey of more than 1,100 innovative firms in Germany. Our survey puts us in the …

of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …

&D activities in its components, "R" and "D". In particular, we distinguish research from development as these activities do not … for financing their research compared to development activities. Moreover, we find that (basic) research subsidy … recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …